This study investigates how community size influences political participation in Latin America.
Data & Methods: Using survey data from Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Chile collected between 2018-2020. Analyzed with multilevel modeling to account for country-level variations.
Key Findings: Contrary to expectations that smaller communities foster higher civic engagement, larger urban neighborhoods demonstrated significantly stronger political participation across these four countries.
Why It Matters: This research suggests policymakers should focus on strengthening community structures within existing large populations rather than encouraging small-scale community formation.
| Community Size, Social Capital, and Political Participation in Latin America was authored by Miguel Carreras and Shaun Bowler. It was published by Springer in Pol. Behav. in 2019. |
